International Women’s Day Event in Halifax
“Join the Haifax-Dartmouth & District Labour Council and our social movement allies to celebrate International Women’s Day 2016 in Halifax on March 8th at 5:30 pm at Grand Parade, in front of city hall. There will be music, hot chocolate, speeches and more. International Women’s Day is a socialist holiday, started in 1909, to remember a strike by working women in New York who were members of International Ladies Garment Workers Union. Since then it has spread all around the world. International Women’s Day celebrates the achievements that have been won in the struggle for equality and focuses on the …